Feb. 10th, 2007---Hunter and Gatherer

This morning we were awakened at half past five in the MORNING to go to the farmers market with our host mother. Seeing it was the first night I was able to sleep it was a struggle for me to get out of bed. We arrived and it was packed. Seriously people it is a Saturday morning what are you doing shopping at half past five? I am soo extremely happy that I went though because I got some great Chai tea and dutch apple pancakes. Our host mother knows every vendor and every customer, so it was quite a social event as well. This my friends and family made me feel like such a Proverbs 31 woman where it talks about the woman getting up before the rooster crows to make sure food is on the table. Will I ever have food on the table before the rooster crows again? I am not sure, but I felt it for a day.

When we arrived back home we took a little snooze and then headed to Power House Church to set up the computer classroom.

It was our first time being back since the incident, but we all prayed together that God was going to keep us safe and give us peace about being back in the township (As an American this is something I don’t do enough because I subconsciously trust that I am always going to be safe so why would I pray for safety-I mean I have a police camera on the corner of my street, does it get much safer than that) And guess what God granted us all of those things and more! We got about half of the school set up…we had to throw most of the CPU’s out because they would not even turn on. So we had a good time pulling them apart…It was just shocking for us to see how much money was spent to send these computers over from the States for them not to work. It would have been a better steward of money if they would have just bought brand new computers here in South Africa rather than paying to ship broken computers. Oh charity.
Tonight we had Allan’s (co-worker from Africa Revolution) mother and Cousin Jolene join us for dinner for another brai. Oh it was great to see them and know they are fully supporting us and what we are doing here in South Africa.